Each social subculture, followed by a group of people for a certain time, usually united by common interests or something else, is characterized by a number of specific features.
These include both external and internal elements that are characteristic only of this particular cultural community of people. Thanks to them, they easily recognize their like-minded people. This may be a certain style of clothing, hair color and length, jewelry, accessories, preferences in drinks and food, demeanor, and so on. Internal signs usually include everything that is imperceptible or incomprehensible to others, for example, specific slang. If a person who does not use the World Wide Web hears a set of letters “SPGS”, what it is, he will not understand, because, as they say, he will be “out of touch.”
How does this abbreviation stand for?
Of course, like any abbreviation, this one has its own decoding. SRSG - what can this reduction hide? There will be an extremely large number of answers among people who do not use the Internet or spend timeat a computer outside of social networks, forums and other platforms where everyone seeks to demonstrate their own erudition and deep understanding of any subject, work or phenomenon.
In fact, SPGS stands for simply - "deep meaning search syndrome".
What is the meaning of this concept? Definition
Does the CPSG have a definition? After all, this abbreviation is actually nothing more than a slang expression characteristic of a particular social community, respectively, scientists have not de alt with it and, probably, in principle, do not know about the existence of this concept.
Nevertheless, this expression has a definition. So, SPGS - what does this abbreviation mean? In other words, it is a painful desire to find hidden or deep meaning in everything that exists.
The most common definition of this concept has developed independently and does not have a specific author. According to him, SPGS are the features of an individual's reaction to works of art, the desire to find some hidden meaning in them and demonstrate to others their exceptional understanding of what exactly the master was trying to convey with his work.
What is the essence of this phenomenon? How is it expressed?
Everyone who follows the publications of musicians, artists, directors, photographers or representatives of other creative professions on social networks, no doubt noticed among the discussions and comments that appear under posts with new works or their announcements, "highly intelligent" remarks,the authors of which seek to explain to others the meaning invested by the authors in the creation.
Such replicas from "know-it-alls" are nothing more than the manifesting SPGS. What is it from the point of view of most other people? Imposing one's own vision of the content of a work of art, an object of art, which often not only does not correspond to the thoughts of the authors, but also practically replaces them with itself.
How else is the phenomenon understood?
SPGS is not the only existing version of the name of a social phenomenon, expressed in the desire to find meaning in everything and convey it to others.
Before the advent of this abbreviation and, in principle, before the Internet became a massive and accessible means of communication, leisure and finding information, there was a different name in use. It sounds like this: “Syndrome of school lessons in literature.”
This expression arose due to the fact that in literature classes much more attention is paid to finding the “meaning between the lines” than to the work itself. Also, this type of reactions can also apply to objects or phenomena that are not related to creative activity. For example, quite often people look for background in the speeches of politicians or in the actions of animals. But in relation to works of art, SPGS is most clearly manifested. What kind of product of creativity it is, it does not matter at all. They equally actively “find” meaning both in the texts of modern songs, even write reviews on them, and in biblical stories, in the works of Leonardo and increations of Instagram stars. For people suffering from SRHD, the subject or work is not so much important as the process of searching for the secret intention of the authors.
Is there a similar scientific concept?
From the point of view of psychology, such a state can be interpreted as painful, being a consequence or a foreshadowing of paranoia. It could also be about schizophrenia. But, of course, only if the person speaking in the style of "highly intellectual snobbery" does not brag to others, but actually sees secret intentions in everything.
In psychology, the term "apophenia" is used to refer to this type of thinking and the corresponding behavioral and social tendencies.
Is this condition painful?
What is the SRSG? What is it - a social phenomenon inherent in a certain group of people, or a painful state of the psyche of a particular person?
The question seems complicated only at first glance. This is both a special state of mind and a social phenomenon. Moreover, they appeared much earlier than their names. For example, incomprehensible or contradictory fragments of the Bible from ancient times were artificially indulged in the “necessary” meaning. A separate section of theology, called exegesis, grew out of this occupation. And giving “correct meaning” to something is nothing more than the reverse side of its search, that is, SRSG.
Thus, we can assume that such a phenomenon arose a very long time ago. But soit manifested itself massively, no doubt, thanks to the development of communications and the availability of the Internet.
